Friday, November 22, 2013

From Benny Peiser's Global Warming Policy Foundation

Britain Joins Australia In Rejecting Climate
Compsensation

David Cameron Reportedly Tells Aides
To 'Get Rid Of All The Green Crap'

Britain sent a blunt message to developing
countries yesterday that it would not give in to their demands for compensation
for weather-related disasters, which, many scientists say, climate change has
worsened. A group of 130 countries, including China, India and Brazil, are
demanding that a new UN institution be created to measure “loss and damage”
from storms, such as the typhoon in the Philippines that killed several
thousand and destroyed or damaged more than 700,000 homes. --Ben Webster, The
Times, 21 November 2013(Subscription
required)
David Cameron has ordered ministers to ditch the ‘green crap’ blamed for
driving up energy bills and making business uncompetitive, it is claimed. The
Prime Minister, who once pledged to lead the ‘greenest government ever’, has
publicly promised to ‘roll back’ green taxes, which add more than £110 a year
to average fuel bills. But a senior Tory source said Mr Cameron’s message in
private is far blunter. The source said: ‘He’s telling everyone, “We’ve got to
get rid of all this green crap.” He’s absolutely focused on it.’ Tory high
command has also privately abandoned Mr Cameron’s pre-election mantra ‘vote
blue, go green’. ‘It’s vote blue, get real, now – and woe betide anyone who
doesn’t get the memo,’ the source said. Downing Street denied the claims and
said: “We do not recognise this at all.”-–Daily
Mail, 21 November 2013

My Take - Well, this was perfectly predictable because the price of energy is the beginning of wisdom.

No. 10 is tellingly refusing to deny the report in today's Sun that David Cameron has
ordered aides to "get rid of all the green crap". A Downing Street
spokesman merely stated that "we do not recognise this at all" (a
classic non-denial denial). In reference to the environmental levies imposed on
fuel bills, a Tory source earlier claimed of Cameron: "He’s telling
everyone, 'We’ve got to get rid of all this green crap.' He’s absolutely
focused on it." The source added: "It’s vote blue, get real, now –
and woe betide anyone who doesn’t get the memo." –George Eaton, New
Statesman, 21 November 2013

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s sacking of the country’s environment
minister Marcin Korolec yesterday has been greeted with dismay and suspicion
among EU policymakers. Several Brussels sources linked the ministerial sacking
to Polish intent to boondoggle – or deniably stall – the summit and prevent
decisions being taken that Warsaw, which opposes further climate action, would
have to veto at a March 2014 European Council. “It is pretty clear that the
Poles have an interest in slowing things down,” one EU source told EurActiv.
“They’ve even said so to us quite bluntly. It shows that their motives for
hosting this conference were not to save the climate but rather to slow down
the process of doing so.” --Euractiv
21 November 2013

Much of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic revival strategy is still
on the drawing board, but earlier this month he helped his cause by abandoning
Tokyo's 2009 pledge to reduce the country's carbon emissions by 25% from 1990
levels by 2020. Despite the shock and horror professed by global climate
mandarins, Japan is not going to become the Worst Polluter in the World as a
result of this announcement. Instead, it will be a country that is striking a
smarter balance between the uncertainty of global-warming predictions and
current economic reality. The Wall
Street Journal, 21 November 2013

China and India are stepping up pressure on wealthy countries to move first on
fighting global warming, saying the earliest industrialized nations are the
most to blame for rising temperatures. Speaking at talks involving 190 nations
that aim to forge a new treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the
developing nations said their richer counterparts should provide more details
on a pledge to boost climate aid to $100 billion a year and on how they will
cut their own emissions before the poorer countries are required to set their
own targets. --Reed Landberg, Bloomberg,
21 November 2013

The annual U.N. climate change meetings are always all about money. This year’s
19th Conference of the Parties (COP-19) in Warsaw is no exception. The latest ploy
by poor countries to guilt money out of rich governments is to claim that it’s
far too late to mitigate or adapt to climate change, it’s now time to pay for
the effects of climate change. --Ronald Bailey, Reason
Online, 20 November 2013

We have now entered the era of climate change induced loss and damage. The time
when emissions reductions and adaptation could have avoided significant adverse
impacts on developing countries and vulnerable populations has passed. In the
past, cutting emissions and adapting infrastructure and social institutions
might have been sufficient responses to man-made climate change, but no longer.
-–Tackling
the Climate Reality, November 2013

A comprehensive survey has been conducted of the American Meteorological Society
membership to elicit their views on global warming. Only 52% state that the
warming is mostly anthropogenic. --Judith Curry, Climate
Etc. 10 November 2013

1 comment:

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Green is a mixture of blue and yellow. That is the only factual definition of green that will stand the test of time. After that; any other definition is a corruption of a perfectly nice color. I have been an exterminator for 35 years. I have served as a trustee on industry association boards representing pesticide and fertilizer applicators actively for almost 25 years. I believe that what we do isn't just a job; it's a mission! We are that thin gray line that mans the wall telling the world; "no one will harm you on my watch". I also believe that to be green is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. They are the barbarians at the gate we have to stand against. Our greatest worry is those within who support and facilitate their misanthropic goals.